Creating a Lean Culture, 3rd Edition

Daily Accountability Process ◾ 125

Day-to-Day Project Management

To be effective in the daily improvement segment of the three-tier meetings,

the meeting leaders (supervisors and value stream leaders) need at least

rudimentary project management skills (a topic touched on in Chapter 9).

That is, the leaders must quickly perceive the series of step-by-step actions

to attack a flow interrupter or develop an improvement. This skill, the

ability to see an implicit work breakdown structure, is necessary to make

appropriate one-step-at-a-time task assignments that cumulatively respond

to the interruption or opportunity. Follow-up on these task assignments is

straightforward with the visual daily task board on which the assignments

are posted.

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